The Surrey Comet covers news on the jailing of three men for their role in an attack on Kingston mosque in November 2010. From the local paper: “Three men who joined a hooded and masked gang to attack Kingston Mosque with sticks and bottles have been jailed today.
The Nottingham branch of the Labour Party has invited controversy by publishing a leaflet claiming the BNP and EDL could capitalise on low voter turnout in the election for a directly elected Mayor on Thursday. From the local paper: “About 3,000 of the leaflets – which claim the British...
Europol last week published its EU Terrorism Situation and Trends report 2012. The TE-SAT provides “facts and figures regarding terrorism in the EU, while also seeking to identify trends in the development of this phenomenon”. The 2012 report identifies a “highly diverse terrorism...
The news agency, Agence France Presse, reports that the Co-op Group, the UK’s fifth largest supermarket retailer, is to extend its boycott of settlement produce to cover suppliers who source their goods from the illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. From the AFP report:...
The Sunday Telegraph published an article yesterday based on the findings of a poll commissioned by Lord Ashcroft on ‘Ethnic Minority Voters and the Conservative Party’. The report, Degrees of Separation finds that there is a significant lack in the ability of BME voters to relate to the...
Guardian journalist Decca Aitkenhead’s interview with George Galloway MP is the G2 cover story today. Galloway tells her that “Winning Bradford West, with the landslide that we did, was the best day of my life”.
The Lancashire Evening Post reports that twelve EDL supporters have admitted public order offences after they entered the garden of MEP Sajjad Karim’s home, causing severe disruption and frightening his family, including his eight year-old daughter. The offences include using threatening...
Islamophobia Watch alerts us to the booklet distributed by London Elects about the London mayoral election on May 3rd, and the anti-Islam quote from ‘Reverend’ Robert West included on the page of the BNP candidate, Carlos Cortiglia. London Elects is “the independent team that organises the...
Local media reports that a pub which is undergoing consideration of plans to be turned into an Islamic community centre has been daubed with racist graffiti and has received hundreds of objections. From Lynn News: “Hundreds of objections have been made to a proposed Islamic community centre.
Messenger Newspapers reports that an Islamic centre in Hale has been subjected to a series of apparently Islamophobic vandal attacks in the past month, prompting the installation of CCTV to deter further attacks. From the report: “Hale’s Islamic Cultural Centre has been hit by a series of...
